April 6, 2015 Last updated: Monday, April 6, 2015, 9:34 AM
By Mark Krulish
Staff Writer |
The Ridgewood News
Budget season continued in Ridgewood with village officials gathering for the second of three public budget meetings on March 22 to resume discussion of departmental needs for the upcoming fiscal year.
Among the changes made in the weeks between the first and second budget meeting was a reduction in the capital budget of approximately $700,000, which brings the current number to $3,194,000.
These talks will be taken up again at 5 p.m. on April 6 in a third public budget meeting. Discussion will include more concrete numbers for each department as well as the revenue side of the budget, said Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld. The village is targeting April 22 as the date for introducing the budget.
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0% Come on Paul you can do it.
Why not cut property taxes althogether? That would be radical. We have $850,000 in savings from the previous quarters slippage, we can ask Valley for a payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) for Village services they consume equivalent to Audrey’s not-for profit, take home pay of $2 million per year, and we can ask public safety officials to finally contribute more towards their pensions and annual $26,000 “platinum” healthcare plans. Hey,if you want to retire in your early 50s, great, but then save more than 8~10% of your wages when you’re actually working towards your retirement. It’s only fair to the rest of us trying to save for our own retirements and health care expenses. Holding police salaries fflat like fire in the new CBA would also help. Given northern NJ and NY inflation has been ZERO in the past year and only 1.2% annually since 2010 versus 4%+ annual wage growth for police & fire in Ridgewood since then, it’s only fair they give back some of their wage growth in excess of actual inflation growth of only 1.2% a year since then.
Why not cut property taxes althogether? That would be radical. We have $850,000 in savings from the previous quarters slippage, we can ask Valley for a payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) for Village services they consume equivalent to Audrey’s not-for profit, take home pay of $2 million per year, and we can ask public safety officials to finally contribute more towards their pensions and annual $26,000 “platinum” healthcare plans. Hey,if you want to retire in your early 50s, great, but then save more than 8~10% of your wages when you’re actually working towards your retirement. It’s only fair to the rest of us trying to save for our own retirements and health care expenses. Holding police salaries flat like fire in the new CBA would also help. Given northern NJ and NY inflation has been ZERO in the past year and only 1.2% annually since 2010 versus 4%+ annual wage growth for police & fire in Ridgewood since then, it’s only fair they give back some of their wage growth in excess of actual inflation growth of only 1.2% a year since then.